Stocks Basically Flat After MASSIVE GOVâT TAKEOVER OF EVERYTHING

Stocks Basically Flat After MASSIVE GOVâT TAKEOVER OF EVERYTHING
Well, that was a fun week in finance news. So what did the markets get, after the U.S. government decided to end market capitalism and become the Soviet Bank of Soviet America? Stocks ended the week flat, thatâs what. Monday morning, the Dow opened at 11,421. Today, after this unprecedented nationalization of AIG and promises of some âWe Buy Your Crapâ market run by the Fed, the DJIA closed at 11,388. (The S&P 500 was about the same, starting the week at 1,252 and ending at 1,256.) A half-trillion in new U.S. debt just doesnât buy what it used to! [Schaeffers Research]

This economic blog entry shows an HSBC Security analyst's comparison of the market closes for the week of 9/12 and 9/19. Despite *all* the volatility this past week, and all the panic and fear in the world markets, from a pure numbers perspective, the major US indices and rates are nearly unchanged from a week ago before the latest iteration of Mister Market's Wild Ride.